Abigail Reynolds

Abigail Reynolds is one of the co-founders of the Austen Variations blog and a nationally bestselling author of Regency variations on Pride & Prejudice, Austenesque gaslamp fantasy, and modern novels set on Cape Cod.

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  1. Alone with Mr. Darcy is here! — 202 comments
  2. Austen Variations is Here! — 152 comments
  3. Jane Austen’s Advent – Day 16 – Scenes from Jane’s life — 152 comments
  4. Mr. Darcy’s Motivations, or a WIP by Abigail Reynolds — 138 comments
  5. Happy Birthday Jane Austen! — 130 comments

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A Sneak Preview of Alone with Mr. Darcy

Pray forgive me! The last time I posted here, I said my new book would be released December 1. I was wrong. Owing to a series of real-life setbacks, I lost over a month of work time, so now I’m aiming for mid to late January. But I’ll try to make it up to you by …

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More Scenes from the Outtake File

Since so many people enjoyed the last set of out-takes I posted, here is another set of scenes I had to cut from my new book. I hated cutting these since I really liked how they came out, so I’m glad to have the chance to share them. It also gives me an excuse to show off the …

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Scenes from the Outtake File

The first draft of my new story Alone with Mr. Darcy is now over 55,000 words long (yay!). It’s been a slow process since Darcy and Elizabeth have been particularly rebellious about following the plot line, so I’ve had to cut long stretches of what I’ve written. It’s frustrating to edit out several weeks worth of writing, …

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Reader’s Perspective with Dave McKee and Evie Cotton – Chapter 23

The Darcy Brothers team would like to thank Dave and Evie for all the trouble they’ve made work they’ve done on the Reader’s Perspective posts. We hope this experiment added to the reading experience. In the meantime, don’t forget to send your questions for Theo Darcy for next week’s Q&A session – especially those questions …

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Reader’s Perspective with Evie Cotton and Dave McKee

EC-I have to admit that this weeks chapter left me feeling fine. During the course of reading a novel I go through a whirlwind of emotions. First I feel excited and intrigued. I love trying to guess where the story will take me and figure out just what it is that will be so different …

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Reader’s Perspective by Dave McKee and Evie Cotton

EC-One of the things that I love so much about Pride and Prejudice is the truth of the characters. Jane Austen did not portray characters that were perfect. They were flawed, just like I am flawed. Everyone knows who the people around them are in relationship to the novel. Here are a two examples from …

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Reader’s Perspective: A Conversation between Dave McKee and Evie Cotton

Apparently the question of who would write the Reader’s Perspective this week was about to degenerate into virtual fisticuffs, but Evie and Dave resolved it by deciding to write it together. A dangerous precedent to allow them to work together – now they’re hatching all sorts of schemes! – Abigail DM- My first reaction to …

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Celebrating The Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote Part 2

This week we’ve taken a couple of days to celebrate Pride & Prejudice: The Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote, an anthology many of us participated in, by sharing a few of our favorite scenes from it. It started a couple of years ago with a project called P&P200 where we took turns writing missing scenes …

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Mr. Darcy Apologizes to Bingley for Darcy’s Part in Separating His Friend from Miss Bennet by Regina Jeffers

23 September 1812 Bingley had entered the morning room to find Darcy dressed for a journey, which had brought a surprise to his friend’s countenance. “Darcy, it appears you plan to leave Netherfield today?” “I do, Bingley.” He had spent a restless night anguishing over what he would say to his most loyal friend. “Why …

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Reader’s Perspective by Evie Cotton

This week Monica Fairview and Abigail Reynolds have blessed us with glimpses into Elizabeth’s mind. After reading these excerpts I must retract about half of what I said last week. No longer am I concerned about the pace of the writing and no longer am I concerned with Elizabeth’s rather sudden change of heart. We …

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